Southern Sojourn

I really have been meaning to blog about the Peachtree Road Race and accompanying über-relaxing vacay at Kitteh’s Zen Palace and Porch Rockery in Stone Mountain, but it COMPLETELY got away from me. With the prospect of auditions (and, God willing, roles) popping up on the horizon, I doubt any additional time will avail itself for my blogging purposes. But all is not lost: YOU actually get treated to a BRIEF blog entry!!! <Insert dancing, singing, drunkenness and assorted revelry amongst the rabble who unashamedly call themselves my friends and blog followers HERE.>

What follows is not poetry, not even haiku (seriously, my brain is THAT fried lately), so it's just a random free-association list of various and sundry stuff that I remember from my awesome trip to Georgia...

Race- (and expo-) specific memories:

• WAY too many people in a comparatively small space (expo)--Gingah NAWT laik
• “More beer” version of Auld Lang Syne
• Watermelon!!!
• Running/walking with YMCA arms
• “Lookin’ GOOD, y’all!”
• Stopping to pet the goggle-clad chi a spectator was holding
• High-five-ing 2 AFD and 1 APD personnel, as well as a couple of spectators
• Thank God for the medical tent
• Probable mild heat exhaustion (aka mountainapalooza)
• “Needle in Cotton” (God bless you, Danny Dreyer, author of ChiRunning...)
• TOE CRAMPS!!!
• Daily mountain climbing--it’s a good thing! 
• No hip pain AT ALL for 8 days--wait, WHAT?!?!?
• 60k registered, 55k finished...including ME (a record for the Peachtree...and me)!
  

Non-race-specific memories:

• Frank in my Peachtree shirt
• Kitteh the Crazy Cat Lady <3 : “Dog person, my ass.”
• Princess: “Ai killz yoo wif mai eyez--PEW! PEW!”
• Camille: “Ai don’tz hatez yoo, ai wuz jus’ feelin’ a might poorleh”
• Mackeh: “Wai yoo awlwehz wakez meh up tuh scwatch mai hed? An STAWP CAWLIN’ MEH ‘SAMMEH’!!!”
• Nitteh: “Ai wuvz yoo, Aunteh Gingah!”
• Corkeh: <Zooms through room too quickly to be heard>
• Phoebeh: “Wai yoo keepz aksidentulleh cawlin meh ‘princess’...ai nawt killz yoo!”
• Scattered, smothered, diced and capped
• Rockin’ on the screened-in porch with a glass of Kitteh’s awesome iced tea
• Three words: STUFFED. PORK. CHOPS.
• Three more words: PICKED. OKRA. AWESOME!!!!!!!
• Feeding the fishies in the widdle fishie pool (pond) and giggling at how Shy Baby shakes her tail

Give yourself 10 points for each reference you fully “get”...